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O-OVW-2021-05002: OVW Fiscal Year 2021 Firearms Technical Assistance Project Pilot Sites Initiative Solicitation

Closed Closed January 18, 2022 Opportunity O-OVW-2021-05002 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$500,000
• Award floor$500,000
• Total funding$6.0 million
• Expected awards12
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, state and local governments and tribes.

Eligible applicants are limited to: States; Indian Tribal governments; state and local courts (including juvenile courts); units of local government; state, tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions; or victim services providers in the United States or U.S. territories. For more information, see the Eligibility Information section of this solicitation.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past OVW Technical Assistance Initiative awards averaged $648,417; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (95% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461. Abusers often use or threaten to use firearms against victims of domestic violence, as well as threatening the victim's children, friends, and relatives. Research demonstrates that when an abuser has access to a firearm, domestic violence is far more likely to be deadly; in fact, an abuser's access to firearms is the single greatest risk factor for intimate partner homicide, with the risk increasing five-fold. Unfortunately, this risk is widespread. National data describe firearms as the overwhelming weapon of choice in intimate partner homicides. According to the FBI's most recent Supplementary Homicide Report, more than half (55%) of intimate partner homicides were committed with a firearm in 2015. This figure has remained the same over the past decade; from 2001 to 2012, 55% of women killed by intimate partners were shot with a firearm. In addition to their lethality, firearms are used by abusers to inflict fear, intimidation, and coercive control over victims. Beginning in FY 2012, the appropriation for OVW's Improving Criminal Justice Responses (ICJR) Program (CFDA# 16.590) has included a $4,000,000 allocation to address domestic violence homicide prevention interventions (DVHPI). In FY 2016 and FY 2018, DVHPI funds were used to support the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges' (NCJFCJ) Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Firearms Technical Assistance Project (FTAP), which helps communities identify challenges limiting a more robust implementation of domestic violence firearms laws in their jurisdictions and assists them in establishing a localized response that is best suited to their communities' unique needs and characteristics. In 2019, six firearms sites were selected to receive intensive training and technical assistance under the FTAP. The FTAP focuses on ICJR purpose area 22 (domestic violence homicide reduction), and will help inform the ICJR Program on best and promising practices for jurisdictions implementing firearms relinquishment policies and practices throughout the civil and criminal justice system. DVHPI funds currently support intensive training and technical assistance through FTAP for six non-funded sites: Birmingham, AL; Columbus, OH; Muskogee Creek Nation, OK; Brooklyn, NY; the state of Vermont; and Spokane, WA (FTAP Sites).

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Applying now

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